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title: Then the King consented, but with much sorrow, and all the nobler so… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King consented, but with much sorrow, and all the nobler sort among his lords were greatly troubled that this should be done. Who acts: King, nobler sort. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 117

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Then the King consented, but with much sorrow, and all the nobler sort among his lords were greatly troubled that this should be done.

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**Who acts:** King, nobler sort · **What happens:** consent, be, do · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, nobler sort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:24:117
# text = Then the King consented, but with much sorrow, and all the nobler sort among his lords were greatly troubled that this should be done.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | the King |  |  |  | then | with much sorrow | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | all nobler sort among King's lords |  |  |  |  | greatly, troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | should · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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